East of Chicago Pizza Franchisehttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com
Pizza Done RightTue, 31 Mar 2015 00:52:58 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1East of Chicago Pizza Opens in Barboursville, WVhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-barboursville-wv/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-barboursville-wv/#commentsMon, 17 Nov 2014 16:15:18 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=310August 2014 (Barboursville, Ohio) – – Dwayne Gue has embarked upon a new adventure as East of Chicago’s newest Franchisee. Dwayne Gue has opened his first East of Chicago Pizza located at 6423 US Route 60; Barboursville, West Virginia. The restaurant continues the expansion of East of Chicago’s ability to bring delicious pizza options with fresh toppings and six different crusts to choose from daily. Their dough is made fresh every morning and they choose only the freshest toppings. East of Chicago Pizza offers more than just great tasting pizza. They offer an expanding menu of delicious toppings, fresh crisp salads, oven-baked subs, wings (regular & boneless) with a variety of sauces, loaded nachos and an assortment of ‘Great Additions’ as well as Quality & Value Every Day!

About East of Chicago Pizza

Founded in 1991, East of Chicago Pizza is famous for its signature fresh pan pizza, devotion to quality, and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza every time. East of Chicago’s commitment to these three principles is the driving force behind their growth and success. East of Chicago Pizza is recognized throughout the Midwest for specialty pizzas, delicious subs, and signature wings. For more information on East of Chicago Pizza, store locations, or franchising opportunities, please visit http://www.eastofchicago.com. Follow East of Chicago on Twitter @EOCPizza and connect with us on Facebook: EOCPizza.

Contact:
Allie Bettac: 419-225-7116

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-barboursville-wv/feed/0East of Chicago Pizza Opens in Louisville, KYhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-louisville-ky/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-louisville-ky/#commentsMon, 17 Nov 2014 16:11:15 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=299March 2014 (Louisville, KY) – Greg Wilson and Sean Oconell have embarked upon a new adventure as East of Chicago’s newest Franchisee. Greg Wilson and Sean Oconell have opened their first East of Chicago Pizza located at 12416 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The restaurant continues the expansion of East of Chicago’s ability to bring delicious pizza options with fresh toppings and six different crusts to choose from daily. Their dough is made fresh every morning and they choose only the freshest toppings. East of Chicago Pizza offers more than just great tasting pizza. They offer an expanding menu of delicious toppings, fresh crisp salads, oven-baked subs, wings (regular & boneless) with a variety of sauces, loaded nachos and an assortment of ‘Great Additions’ as well as Quality & Value Everyday!
About East of Chicago Pizza

Founded in 1991, East of Chicago Pizza is famous for its signature fresh pan pizza, devotion to quality, and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza every time. East of Chicago’s commitment to these three principles is the driving force behind their growth and success. East of Chicago Pizza is recognized throughout the Midwest for specialty pizzas, delicious subs, and signature wings. For more information on East of Chicago Pizza, store locations, or franchising opportunities, please visit http://www.eastofchicago.com. Follow East of Chicago on Twitter @EOCPizza and connect with us on Facebook: EOCPizza.

Contact:
Allie Bettac: 419-225-7116

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-louisville-ky/feed/0East of Chicago Pizza Opens in Saint Joseph, MIhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-saint-joseph-mi/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-saint-joseph-mi/#commentsTue, 25 Mar 2014 02:43:58 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=295February 2014 (St. Joseph, MI) – Keith and Jocellie Llanto have embarked upon a new adventure as East of Chicago’s newest Franchisee. Keith and Jocellie have opened their first East of Chicago Pizza located at 4031 M-139, Saint Joseph, Michigan. The restaurant continues the expansion of East of Chicago’s ability to bring delicious pizza options with fresh toppings and six different crusts to choose from daily. Their dough is made fresh every morning and they choose only the freshest toppings. East of Chicago Pizza offers more than just great tasting pizza. They offer an expanding menu of delicious toppings, fresh crisp salads, oven-baked subs, wings (regular & boneless) with a variety of sauces, loaded nachos and an assortment of ‘Great Additions’ as well as Quality & Value Everyday!

About East of Chicago Pizza

Founded in 1991, East of Chicago Pizza is famous for its signature fresh pan pizza, devotion to quality, and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza every time. East of Chicago’s commitment to these three principles is the driving force behind their growth and success. East of Chicago Pizza is recognized throughout the Midwest for specialty pizzas, delicious subs, and signature wings. For more information on East of Chicago Pizza, store locations, or franchising opportunities, please visit http://www.eastofchicago.com. Follow East of Chicago on Twitter @EOCPizza and connect with us on Facebook: EOCPizza.

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-saint-joseph-mi/feed/0East of Chicago Pizza Opens in Canal Fulton, Ohiohttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-canal-fulton-ohio/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-canal-fulton-ohio/#commentsFri, 31 Jan 2014 05:43:51 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=290January 2014 (Canal Fulton, OH) – Daniel James and Christopher Terry have embarked upon a new adventure. The newest East of Chicago Pizza is located at 987 East Cherry Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio. The restaurant will bring new flavors with its many options of fresh toppings and six different crusts to choose from. Their dough is made fresh every morning and they choose only the freshest toppings. East of Chicago offers more than just great tasting pizza. They offer an expanding menu of delicious toppings, fresh crisp salads, oven-baked subs, wings (regular & boneless) with a variety of sauces, loaded nachos and an assortment of ‘Great Additions’ as well as Quality & Value Everyday!

About East of Chicago Pizza

Founded in 1991, East of Chicago Pizza is famous for its signature fresh pan pizza, devotion to quality, and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza every time. East of Chicago’s commitment to these three principles is the driving force behind their growth and success. East of Chicago Pizza is recognized throughout the Midwest for specialty pizzas, delicious subs, and signature wings. For more information on East of Chicago Pizza, store locations, or franchising opportunities, please visit http://www.eastofchicago.com. Follow East of Chicago on Twitter @EOCPizza and connect with us on Facebook: EOCPizza.

Contact:Allie Bettac: 419-225-7116

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-opens-in-canal-fulton-ohio/feed/0East of Chicago Taking Sumter, SC by Stormhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/sumter-sc/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/sumter-sc/#commentsFri, 24 Jan 2014 17:29:51 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=241Since opening a few weeks ago, the parking lot of East of Chicago Pizza has been busy in the lunch and dinner hours, serving up slice after slice of the franchise’s handmade pizza to Sumter residents.

“It’s been phenomenal,” said Cathy Rabon, who owns the business with her husband, Bubba.

Its specialty, said Mike Williams, vice president of operations for the franchise, is its pizza, which can be made with five different crust styles and more than 15 choices in toppings. Williams said the pizzas are all handmade fresh in the restaurant, using a large mixer to make fresh dough daily.

“Ours is a pan crust, which is nice and crisp on the bottom and light and airy inside,” he said.

The same dough is used to make their dessert, CinnaPOPS, a cinnamon-sugar-covered confection popular among guests, he said.
The popularity of the Sumter restaurant caught Williams by surprise.

“Sales have been more than I expected,” he said.

Chalk it up to a great product and experienced owners, he added.

“They know if we cook it, it’s good,” said Bubba Rabon. “We wanted to create a first-class pizza and dining facility.”
The Rabons have been restaurateurs in both Sumter and Myrtle Beach, having owned Todd’s Steakhouse in the 1980s and Cathy’s on Broad more recently. The two currently own and operate Sports & Wings, a restaurant located on the corner of Wise and Broad streets.

Bubba Rabon said he became familiar with East of Chicago after visiting a restaurant in Myrtle Beach. He and his wife were looking to “diversify” and saw an opportunity for a Sumter location of the pizzeria.

“Their product was the best, and we wanted the best,” he said.

Cathy Rabon said the pieces just fell into place.

“It was the right place, the right time and the right product,” she said.

The dining room of the restaurant features family style seating and several flat-screen televisions.

“We are trying to create a nice, comfortable family atmosphere,” said Williams.

Williams and the Rabons admit that there have been a few hiccups since the restaurant opened but said they are working toward running the restaurant at optimum performance.

“We are trying to make the guest experience faster,” said Cathy Rabon.

The East of Chicago Pizza franchise originally started with a single store in Greenwich, Ohio, in 1991 and soon branched out into multiple stores, mostly in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Williams said the name came from a frequent customer who claimed the fare was “the best pizza east of Chicago.”

Currently, the Sumter installment of the franchise is the second in South Carolina with one in Myrtle Beach, although the Rabons said they are looking to expand the franchise into the surrounding areas.

A gang of pizza-munching, Honda-loving car thieves who cut a swath through the East Bay was sniffed out by police after they left a sloppy trail of clues inside the stolen vehicles. The ring of nine teenagers, all from Oakland, allegedly stole at least 26 Honda Accords in Oakland and in BART stations throughout Contra Costa County and burglarized dozens more over the past two months, until alert investigators noticed a pattern.

The thieves would drive the cars around for a couple of days while munching pizza, strip the vehicles of anything valuable, and then abandon them with boxes inside and half-eaten pizza slices on the seats.

“All the pizza boxes had the name of the establishment on them, but none of them had the tag that comes with a pizza when you buy it,” said BART police Sergeant Mike Miller. “Speculation was it was probably someone working in a pizza shop.”

The hunch was right. Investigators with the BART and Oakland police departments followed the trail to its source – an Oakland pizza parlor with a 17-year-old suspected car thief working the counter.

It was a key factor in the eventual arrest of eight other suspects, all 16 and 17 years old, between September 25 and October4. They were all booked on charges of auto theft.

The pizza boxes weren’t the only clue. BART investigators and Oakland police also found a scrap of paper with a name on it inside a schoolbook left in one of the cars. Detectives tracked the name to Skyline High School in Oakland, where they noticed a stolen Honda Accord sitting in the parking lot.

A 16-year-old boy eventually hopped in the car – and into the hands of police. He had purchased a Club device to protect the car from theft.

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/police-arrest-9-teens-in-honda-hungry-east-bay-ring/feed/0Cheese Prices Holding Steadyhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/block-cheese-prices/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/block-cheese-prices/#commentsMon, 11 Nov 2013 03:51:16 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=229Even though the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), along with the U.S. Senate, recently introduced legislation to boost the prices of dairy products this year, block cheese prices held steady last week, averaging just under $1.27 per pound through the first quarter of the year. The steady cheese prices were good news to both chain franchise chain pizzerias and smaller independent operators who have been struggling to keep menu prices from rising.

At East of Chicago Pizza, we NEVER cut corners. We believe our devotion to quality and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza with every bite at an affordable price is the KEY to our popularity!

Anyone in the business of serving pizza probably does not need to be reminded that October is National Pizza Month here in the United States. While the contribution of the first pizzerias in this country cannot be ignored, it was really the returning American soldiers who fought in Italy during World War II that brought a hunger for pizza home with them and pushed its popularity over the top. America’s love of pizza continued to grow and now October is the official National Pizza Month across most of North America.

First observed in the United States during 1984 (although many people incorrectly claim it was 1987), Gerry Durnell, the founder of Pizza Today magazine, designated October as National Pizza Month who chose that month because the first issue of his magazine debuted in October of that year. Durnell was a pizzeria owner in the small town of Santa Claus, Indiana when he realized there were no periodicals or tradeshow publications to support his growing pizza business or the industry in general. Creation of a national pizza-oriented magazine along with the introduction of a national pizza month served his purposes perfectly and solved the problem.

Today, National Pizza Month is observed each October across the USA and in much of Canada too. The designation might be a bit redundant in this country though, as nearly every month could be considered Pizza Month in the United States these days. People don’t really need a special month for pizza in a country where there are an estimated 63,000 pizzerias and 94% of Americans eat pizza at least once a month. The figures equal the consumption of about 45 slices of pizza per person in the U.S. each year and show that Americans definitely love their pizza as evidenced by devouring 100 acres of pizza per day, or 350 slices per second.

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/happy-pizza-month/feed/0Italian Neapolitan Pizza Protected by EUhttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/italian-neapolitan-pizza/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/italian-neapolitan-pizza/#commentsWed, 25 Sep 2013 03:48:01 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=225The city of Naples celebrated late into the night on February 5th after the European Union (EU) awarded its coveted Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG) label to traditional Italian Neapolitan pizza. The new TSG listing puts Neapolitan pizza on the EU’s list of foods that are protected against being copied by substandard imitations and is a recognition that Italian pizza makers have been seeking for the past 25 years.

Now that the designation is official, only pizzas made in the traditional Neapolitan recipe can be called “Neapolitan” and they can only be served in restaurants that have received the TSG certification label. All Neapolitan pizzas must now employ the original Naples recipe including hand-stretched dough made of hard wheat flour, fresh yeast, water and sea salt. The toppings must be olive oil, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese (from buffalo milk), and fresh basil. All pizzerias seeking to serve Neapolitan pizza will have to apply for the TSG seal.

Naples’ pizza makers have been trying to get the EU to recognize their favorite food for many years and the city hosted a spontaneous street-party after receiving news of the award. As part of the celebration, free Neapolitan pizzas were handed out by the first pizzerias that received their certificates.

]]>http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/news/italian-neapolitan-pizza/feed/0East of Chicago Pizza Heads South with a New Store in Sumter, SChttp://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-heads-south-with-a-new-store-in-sumter-south-carolina/
http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/store-openings/east-of-chicago-pizza-heads-south-with-a-new-store-in-sumter-south-carolina/#commentsSat, 24 Aug 2013 01:54:17 +0000http://www.eastofchicagofranchise.com/?p=157August 2013 (Sumter, SC) – Cathy Rabon has embarked upon a new adventure as East of Chicago’s newest Franchisee. Cathy has opened her first East of Chicago Pizza located at 837 C Broad St., Sumter, South Carolina. The restaurant continues the expansion of East of Chicago’s ability to bring delicious pizza options to new markets in the United States.

Tony Collins, president of East of Chicago Pizza commented, “In the next five years, the company plans on reaching a total of 150 stores and growing the corporate structure to provide continued support to current and future franchisees in all aspects of development, training and operations. The drive and success of existing franchisees are two major aspects of East of Chicago’s growth plans. Cathy is a perfect example of how our proven system, combined with the right operator, will be successful in any market.”

East of Chicago Pizza dough is made fresh every morning and they choose only the freshest toppings. They offer more than just great tasting pizza. They offer an expanding menu of delicious toppings, fresh crisp salads, oven-baked subs, wings (regular & boneless) with a variety of sauces, loaded nachos and an assortment of ‘Great Additions’ as well as Quality & Value Everyday!

About East of Chicago Pizza

Founded in 1991, East of Chicago Pizza is famous for its signature fresh pan pizza, devotion to quality, and the belief customers deserve the best tasting pizza every time. East of Chicago’s commitment to these three principles is the driving force behind their growth and success. East of Chicago Pizza is recognized throughout the Midwest for specialty pizzas, delicious subs, and signature wings. For more information on East of Chicago Pizza, store locations, or franchising opportunities, please visit http://www.eastofchicago.com. Follow East of Chicago on Twitter @EOCPizza and connect with us on Facebook: EOCPizza.